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The Future of Healthcare in Europe
13 May 2011
Mary Ward House
In cooperation with the Finnish Institute in London
Supported by the Embassy of Finland and the Embassy
of Denmark
Increasing gap between total health spending
and GDP growth
4,000
Total
spend on
health
3,000
2,000
GDP
1,000
1970
1980
1990
2000
OECD Countries indexed at 1970 = 100
A widening gap due to:
•
•
•
•
•
An ageing population
Changing definition of health
Consumer expectation
Medical innovation
Disease pattern shifts
Supply and demand factors
• Demography
• Economic
− Recession
− Tax earner : beneficiary ratio
• Technological capacity
− Affordability v Productivity gains
• Public expectation
Today’s programme
• Session 1: The Health Challenge: An overview
• Keynote: Professor Sir Michael Marmot
• Session 2: Technology Drivers: Problems and Solutions
• Keynote: Professor Michael Hübel
• Session 3: Economic models
• Session 4: Responding to the challenge: determining health policy
• Concluding remarks: Professor Albert Weale